Sentences with phrase «influenced by the father»

Corcoran was influenced by her father to work for herself, as he worked for somebody his entire life and didn't enjoy a single minute of it.

Herrera says her ethically minded stance was influenced by her father, who had family and friends in the manufacturing industry and taught her the importance of supporting low - pollution factories that were considerate of their surrounding communities.

Influenced by his father, a brilliant Romantics scholar, Edward has always been more of a purist than an opportunist.

Brainchild of designer - founder Melanie Hall whose portfolio is greatly influenced by her father's modernist architecture, the rooms at Luna2 are named after their five different colour schemes, namely green, orange, purple, red and yellow — applied either to the décor, wallpaper, art pieces, furniture and linens.

The game does justice to the title by the protagonists being influenced by their fathers» legacies and also their youth.

Born in Connecticut in 1927, she was influenced by her father, a Yiddish poet and intellectual who had participated in the Russian revolution before he immigrated to America.

Merz was influenced by his father, an inventor and engineer, who imparted an innate fascination for science and mathematics.

Influenced by her father's love of sumi ink painting, calligraphy and Chinese poetry, Shinoda practiced calligraphy from the age of six.

GROWING UP, Kara's was greatly influenced by her father.

Persistent parental economic advantage means that a son's income is strongly influenced by his father's, indicating low social mobility.

Not exact matches

No - one can dispute that the Founding Fathers were influenced in their ideas by the Bible — but «influenced by» doesn't mean they intended to create a Christian Nation.

He first notes that the Christian concept of God as Father has been under attack» much of the attack coming from Catholics influenced by feminist psychology.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Esther is the Jewish heroine who, along with her adoptive father, Mordecai, reversed Haman's plan by influencing the king of the Persian Empire, Xerxes.

Even the Christian fathers from Goa, represented by Aquaviva and Monserrate, came to join this debate, but they failed to influence Akbar.

Because environments do influence the decisions and actions by which we constitute ourselves as one kind of person or another, this book should be mandatory reading for those who may like it least» mothers and fathers of college - bound young men and women.

According to this interpretation, our form of government enjoys lasting legitimacy because it was created by Founding Fathers who were deeply influenced by Judeo - Christian values.

Many of the early «Church Fathers» were highly influenced by the pagan Greek ideas of Plato and Aristotle, who taught the immortal soul idea.

My family have since become Christians, but sadly my father — influenced by evil spirits and under pressure locally — has reverted back to witchcraft.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

The Tablet could scarcely contain its glee over this apparent «abuse» publishing a piece by Gerald Renner, co-author of Vows of Silence, under the cover headline «Scandal of Father Maciel», and concluding its editorial «For too long the Vatican has been taken in by appearances, over — impressed by power and influence.

The fact that Jesus is the one redeeming Mediator between heaven and earth does not override the mutual belonging, influence and intercession of human beings upon each other: it is this whole fabric of humanity that he redeems and brings back to the Father by his perfect mediation between heaven and earth.

Tessa (Jane Levy, Shameless) is being raised by her single father, George (Jeremy Sisto, Law & Order), who is worried about her circle of influence in new York City — so he packs up and moves the small family to the suburbs.

Herewith, twenty years later, reflections on the influence of the book and contemporary problems raised by its argument, with a response by Father Neuhaus.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Meanwhile, in 1981, in an innovative paper presented at United Theological College, Bangalore, Arvind P. Nirmal found a point of irreversible departure «Towards a Sudra Theology» which had eventually led him to be the father of dalit theology.3 Nirmal himself used to recall the lores and stories from the Marathi dalit oral tradition and admitted that he has been greatly influenced by them in his understanding of God.

Nevertheless, the council fathers were influenced by the hope that the postwar era marked a new turn in human history, one with a world - uniting dynamic.

Woods has a Buddhist, Thai mother and a black, American father, and Woods has been influenced by both cultures.

This edition of Attached Family was also made in appreciation of longtime magazines like Mothering, New Beginnings, and Breastfeeding Today, which paved the way to widespread support for breastfeeding and Attachment Parenting conversations among mothers, and now fathers, and by extension, contributing to the breastfeeding movement that eventually influenced the research and medical communities.

• One study found fathers» acceptance of their child strongly influenced by their own parents» acceptance of the child (Waisbren, 1980).

• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

This impact varied by gender; fathers» influence, for example, had a larger effect on boys» language than girls» language.

Erkut et al (2005), studying Puerto Rican adolescent fathers, found their involvement influenced by child characteristics, their own perceptions of their fathering competence, social support — and the quality of relationship with their baby's mother

Duncan Fisher, Chief Executive of Fathers Direct says: Fathers Direct supports the Parent Know How campaign as it highlights the positive influence that both fathers and mothers can have by making the most of even the simple «everyday» time they spend together with their chFathers Direct says: Fathers Direct supports the Parent Know How campaign as it highlights the positive influence that both fathers and mothers can have by making the most of even the simple «everyday» time they spend together with their chFathers Direct supports the Parent Know How campaign as it highlights the positive influence that both fathers and mothers can have by making the most of even the simple «everyday» time they spend together with their chfathers and mothers can have by making the most of even the simple «everyday» time they spend together with their children.

The father - daughter connection, even several years after a family dissolves, is heavily influenced by consistency in contact and the quality of the relationship.

The experience of the Scandinavian countries highlights how particular types of family leave policies can influence behavior, drawing fathers into family care by providing a legitimating framework for their caregiving.

Kessler et al19 reported that in a group of 133 women, 71 % were influenced by the infant's father and 29 % by the maternal grandmother.

And just as a mother's relationship with her child is influenced by birth practices, so is a father's or partner's.

Fathers can influence their children by providing direct care, as well as indirectly through financial support and social modelling.

Izetbegovic's narrative was clearly influenced by the legacy of his late father Alija Izetbegovic, the former leader of the Bosniaks during the 1990s war.

Since no one knows what influenced the «Father Christmas» gesture of Boko Haram leaders in releasing the girls which even took a section of the military by surprise, it is purely exceptional intelligence operations.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were convicted on all counts Friday for shaking down more than $ 300,000 in payoffs by trading on the father's political influence.

Adam Skelos, the former Senate majority leader's son, who is also on trial, believed he knew how things got done in Albany: Don't hire a New York City lobbyist to influence the Senate Republican majority, which was led by his father until earlier this year.

«You don't think it's in Adam's mind that his father having the power to control or influence legislation needed by each of these three employers would be using that and he wanted his dad to use that because he wanted the job and he didn't care about the consequences?»

The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father's influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans.

The study found that older sisters with greater exposure to their fathers were strongly influenced by the quality of fathering they received.

And since the newest research suggests that extreme longevity is determined largely by genes, you might also want to know, as I do, whose genes you've inherited (my father died at 93, my mother at 71) and which aspects of lifestyle, diet, and the environment influence those genes most.

Pilsner and colleagues will examine the possible influence of paternal phthalate exposure on sperm quality and embryo development and whether DNA methylation in sperm cells may be a pathway by which a father's exposure influences these endpoints.

«Mothers were more influenced by marital quality than fathers,» Kang said.

«Fathers» brains respond differently to daughters than sons: Daily interactions with toddlers may be influenced by gender, research finds.»